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The expenses of cultivating, pruning, spraying, picking, packing, 

 and shipping are found to vary from 60 cents to $i per barrel, 

 according to amount of labour and the crop obtained. 



To sum up, it may be briefly said that the fruit industry of this 

 province offers excellent investments for at least two classes of men 

 coming here as settlers : to those who come with a capital of, say, 

 from -2,000 to 3,000 sterling, and can therefore buy orchards 

 already in bearing, which will yield a good interest on their invest- 

 ment from the start ; and to those of lesser means who come with 

 a few hundred pounds, and buy up unimproved lands and develop 



APPLE-GATHERING IN THE ANNAPOLIS VALLEY. 



these. Lands suitable for this latter purpose can be had from $10 

 (2) per acre upwards. By setting such land with apple trees and 

 then interplanting with plums and small fruits a plantation is 

 quickly established on a paying basis. 



Should a man prefer dairying, general farming, or the rearing 

 of horses or cattle, he will find Nova Scotia interlaced with river 

 valleys, widely margined by broad intervale meadows, which, 

 owing to the overflowing of the streams in spring and autumn are 

 to a certain extent self-sustaining, not infrequently growing 3 tons 

 of hay to the acre, and capable of raising splendid grain and 

 root crops. He will find broadly bordering the head-waters of the 



